MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts! The centuries are staring with your
eyes. A silent speech on a piece of paper is a gravestone of each life gone.
Each script is a sketch of the past. These scripts are the landscape of genius
minds. Manuscripts! You have home and its name sounds Matenadaran. Manuscripts!
You are the candles lit by the prayers in erupting light. You escaped from the
flames to survive. The genius write may still wipe the thick dust of time.
Manuscripts! You have home with a roof which is bright. Manuscripts! You are
the eyes of the centuries gone. Matenadaran! You are the very mouth of the
immortal tongue.
St. Luke, Illuminated Armenian Gospel Evangelist -- Aristakes
St. Luke, Illuminated Armenian Gospel Evangelist -- Aristakes 
The Matenadaran (a compound of the Armenian “matean" (book or parchment) and “daran" (repository) in Yerevan is the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts, holding some 23,000 manuscripts and scrolls (including fragments) and over 500,000 other documents. It was established in 1959 on the basis of the nationalized collection of the Armenian Church, formerly held at the Etchmiadzin catholicosate in Vagharshapat since the 5th century, and was named the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in 1962. In 387 Persia obtained about 4/5 of Armenia, ruled by a feudatory king, while the Byzantine Empire took the rest, governed by the military. The Persians prohibited the use of Greek in religious observances, while the Byzantines forbade the use of Syriac, which had hitherto been exclusively used. In Persian Armenia, Khosrov IV appointed Mesrop Mashtots as his secretary to write his edicts in Greek and Persian, but Mashtots left to become a missionary. With the support of Khosrov’s brother Vramshapuh, who became king in 389, and catholicos Sahak, Mashtots devised the Hayots' grer (the Armenian alphabet) ca. 405. The 1st sentence that he wrote in his new alphabet was “To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding” (Book of Proverbs, 1:2). His student Koriun composed "Varq Mashtotsi" (Life of Mashtots), the 1st book composed in the alphabet; as bishop of Sakartvelo (“Geogia”), Koriun also claimed that Mashtots invented Asomtavruli (the 1st Georgian alphabet) and that used in Aghuank (“Caucasian Albania,” in Azerbaijan). In addition to the Arabic script the Osmanli Turks later used the Hayots' grer on official documents and, from the early 18th century until around 1950, it was used in more than 2,000 books in the Turkish language; in addition it was used for books written in the Kurdish language.
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